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The Linux year in brief

Publication:PC ProDate:Dec 25 2003

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Things augured well for the adoption of the Linux operating system even before the year had begun, with Red Hat moving into profit for the first time, fuelled by strong demand from the enterprise.

But while the corporate world was beginning to rally round the platform, MandrakeSoft, vendor of one of the most user-friendly distributions, filed for the French equivalent of Chapter 11-style bankruptcy protection.

Even worse followed shortly, when speculation that a company called SCO had hired a high profile lawyer to look into revenue opportunities from its Unix IP turned out to be entirely true.




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